Boris Savchenko Wins Moscow Open

The Moscow Open 2013, held as part of the Moscow International Chess Festival was won by Russian grandmaster Boris Savchenko. In a complex final round game, he prevailed over his compatriot Pavel Ponkratov. That win allowed Savchenko to score 7½/9 points, half a point ahead of the rest of the field.

A total of nine players finished with 7 points, headed on tie-break by the top seed in the event, Ian Nepomniachtchi, while third place went to Pavel Maletin.

The award was presented to Savchenko by Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Russian Chess Federation Arkady Dvorkovich and Deputy Chairman of Moskomsport Nikolay Gulyaev.

Boris Savchenko (right) claimed first place ahead of Ian Nepomniachtchi

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The top standings

#

Name

Fed

Elo

Pts

TB

1

Savchenko Boris

RUS

2584

7.5

51.5

2

Nepomniachtchi Ian

RUS

2703

7.0

56.5

3

Maletin Pavel

RUS

2571

7.0

54.0

4

Mamedov Rauf

AZE

2651

7.0

51.5

5

Kokarev Dmitry

RUS

2635

7.0

50.5

6

Iturrizaga Eduardo

VEN

2646

7.0

49.5

7

Sandipan Chanda

IND

2590

7.0

49.0

8

Matinian Nikita

RUS

2460

7.0

49.0

9

Khairullin Ildar

RUS

2650

7.0

48.5

10

Smirnov Pavel

RUS

2618

7.0

45.5

11

Kovalenko Igor

UKR

2586

6.5

53.0

12

Kovalev Vladislav

BLR

2500

6.5

48.5

13

Panarin Mikhail

RUS

2552

6.5

48.5

14

Guseinov Gadir

AZE

2623

6.5

47.5

15

Khusnutdinov Rustam

KAZ

2493

6.5

46.5

16

Volkov Sergey

RUS

2593

6.5

42.5

17

Arun Prasad S.

IND

2514

6.5

41.0

18

Adhiban B.

IND

2547

6.0

53.5

19

Ibragimov Ildar

USA

2555

6.0

52.5

20

Ponkratov Pavel

RUS

2584

6.0

52.0

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The festival ran from the 31 January - 10 February at the Russian State Social University, and consisted of of nine tournaments:

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